In 851 the Danish army that had overwintered on Thanet sacked Canterbury and then London, putting Berhtwulf of Mercia to flight. The sack of London, then in Mercian territory, demonstrated the scale of Danish ambition. The army then crossed the Thames into Surrey where it was destroyed at Acleah by Aethelwulf.
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